# Context.dev, free tier, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full: People search API

> Find people with a natural-language query.

Context.dev's people search API on its Free Tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Location.
We rank 500 plans by price. [Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 people: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 people.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search)](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack-starter-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt), [QuickEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/29-monthly-starter-post-api-employees-contact-finder/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt) are the best people search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full
- [Best people search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.context.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.context.dev/v1/people/search`, Search People, full
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.context.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.context.dev/api-reference/people/search
- Sold by: Context.dev (https://www.context.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Location: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: Logo Link · from the same budget: Scrape · Map URLs · Crawl Website · Search Web · Answers · Search Companies · Retrieve Brand · Auto-complete Brand · Extract Styleguide · Search News · Parse File · Batches · Monitor runs · Enrich Person

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find people with a natural-language query.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: We grant you a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute Output for any lawful purpose, including in AI applications and model training, and that license survives termination. We do not claim ownership of Third-Party Content, and this license does not give you rights in Third-Party Content that we don’t have. [...] Content being publicly available does not by itself give you the right to reuse it. [...] You may not use the Services to: [...] infringe or misappropriate anyone’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights, collect, enrich, or use personal data without a lawful basis or a required notice or consent, or to stalk, harass, threaten, dox, or unlawfully surveil anyone, make or support decisions about a person’s eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing, or government benefits, screen individuals’ backgrounds, or otherwise use Output for a purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act or comparable laws, or treat any Output as a “consumer report”, [...] send spam or unsolicited messages to contacts obtained through the Services in violation of applicable law, commit or facilitate fraud, phishing, malware distribution, deception, or impersonation, including using brand data or assets to pose as another company, [...] violate any applicable law or regulation, or help anyone else do so. [...] You also may not: [...] resell, sublicense, or give third parties direct access to the Services as a standalone offering, such as a pass-through API or white-label scraping service, without our written agreement (building products that use the Services and deliver Output to your users is allowed), [...] API access does not grant a license to reuse third-party material.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 20 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, mode "ultra". Optional: filters.countries, filters.years_of_experience_min, filters.years_of_experience_max, cursor, tags
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/people/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Tier
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per person

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, description, profile URL, country code, region, city, current title, seniority, functions, current title start date, current company, current company domain, years of experience, is founder, skills, schools, next cursor, request ID, credits consumed, credits remaining, match confidence

## Context.dev's plans (12)

- [Context.dev, free tier, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $20 monthly, Developer, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/20-monthly-developer-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $90 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/90-monthly-pro-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $4.50 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $300 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly-growth-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $500 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/500-monthly-scale-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $950 monthly, Scale 2.5M, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/950-monthly-scale-2-5m-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $200 yearly, Developer, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/200-yearly-developer-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $8.333 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $900 yearly, Pro, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/900-yearly-pro-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $3.75 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $3,000 yearly, Growth, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/3000-yearly-growth-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $5,000 yearly, Scale, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/5000-yearly-scale-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $2.083 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, $9,500 yearly, Scale 2.5M, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/9500-yearly-scale-2-5m-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): $1.583 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Context.dev, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt): 31% complete

## Context.dev's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/people/search`, Search People: [Context.dev, free tier, POST /v1/people/search, Search People](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/people/search`, Search People, full: [Context.dev, free tier, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt)

## Context.dev's APIs (12)

- [Context.dev: company discovery API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: people enrichment API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: reverse email lookup API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: web search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: G2 review API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/g2-review-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: Instagram profile API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: TikTok profile API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: TikTok video API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by domain](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-brand-retrieve-lookup-by-domain/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by email](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-brand-retrieve-lookup-by-email/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by name](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-brand-retrieve-lookup-by-name/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by page URL](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-brand-retrieve-lookup-by-page-url/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by ticker](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-brand-retrieve-lookup-by-ticker/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: company enrichment API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/brand/retrieve, Lookup by transaction](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-brand-retrieve-lookup-by-transaction/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: web scraping API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/web/scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-web-scrape-scrape/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: web scraping API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/web/scrape, Scrape, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-web-scrape-scrape-full/llms.txt)
- [Context.dev: people search API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/people/search, Search People, full](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/context-dev/free-tier-post-v1-people-search-search-people-full/llms.txt)

## Context.dev: people search API alternatives

- [Hunter, $749.70 yearly, Data Platform, 49,000 Search credits, GET /domain-search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/hunter/749-70-yearly-data-platform-49000-search-credits-get-domain-search/llms.txt): $1.53 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [AI Ark, $1,142 yearly, Usage-Based Plan, 360k Credits / Year, POST /v1/people/export](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/ai-ark/1142-yearly-usage-based-plan-360k-credits-year-post-v1-people-export/llms.txt): $1.586 per 1,000, 92% complete, 30 days
- [Pubrio, $2,388 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/pubrio/2388-yearly/llms.txt): $1.592 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 day
- [DiscoLike, $7,670 yearly, Company (annual), POST /contacts/discover](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/discolike/7670-yearly-company-annual-post-contacts-discover/llms.txt): $1.60 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

- https://docs.context.dev/account/billing
- https://docs.context.dev/account/credits
- https://docs.context.dev/api-reference/people/enrich
- https://docs.context.dev/api-reference/people/search.md
- https://docs.context.dev/optimization/rate-limits
- https://docs.context.dev/optimization/responsible-use
- https://docs.context.dev/people/enrich
- https://docs.context.dev/people/search.md
- https://www.context.dev/people-enrichment
- https://www.context.dev/pricing
- https://www.context.dev/terms